Jennifer Belle Knihy

Autorka v príbehu mladej ženy z New Yorku, ktorá si prácou "dievčaťa na telefón" zarába na štúdium herectva rozpráva nielen o ponížení, ktoré prináša najstaršie povolanie na svete, ale i vierohodne popisuje rozličné zážitky zo života odvrátenej tvári newyorských stredných vrstiev. Ikeď sa na prvý pohľad zdá, že hrdinka knihy je vhodnou kandidátkou na vstup medzi "opovrhovaných", jej príbeh, rozprávaný so zľahčujúcou sebairóniou, nás upozorňuje, že to, čo je na ľuďoch nakoniec najzaujímavejšie, nie sú problémy, ktoré zakúsili, ale spôsoby, akými sa dostávajú dopredu.

Following Ivy Sparrow's discoveries in The Crooked Sixpence, the adventures continue in the second instalment of The Uncommoners trilogy, The Smoking Hourglass. As soon as Ivy and her brother Seb set foot back in the mysterious underground city of Lundinor, they know that something has changed . . . Where before there were cobbled streets, now the squares and lanes between the city's enchanted shops are lush with spring blooms - but something dark is stirring just below the surface, and uncommon traders are uneasy. Ivy and Seb have stumbled into a plot that could condemn every uncommoner to a disastrous fate . . . With the help of Valian, their extraordinary friend - and some exceptional uncommon objects - can Ivy and Seb put a stop to the sinister Dirge's plans?

Best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse Lolita that explores adolescent desire from the girl's point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, Swanna in Love will keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by.

A funny, sassy and original first novel which is currently being made into a film by Madonna

Liv Kellerman is 26, newly divorced, and has just lost the love of her life. Her husband? You've got to be kidding. It's her apartment she's in mourning for - her lovely penthouse apartment with its Empire State Building view. On her own for the first time in her life, Liv is forced to relocate to a crumbling Greenwich Village hovel, but things are about to get a lot worse. She's about to become an estate agent. Belle's gift for creating eccentric and winning characters, and her acute observations of both the absurd and the poignant in everyday life, are the hallmarks of her fiction. HIGH MAINTENANCE is generous and unsparing, tough and exciting and terrifically smart - a hot new property on the market.

Izzy Brilliant lleva una vida laboral de ensueño, tiene un marido fiel aunque algo neurótico y un estupendo apartamento en Manhattan. Pero cuando consigue cumplir su postergado deseo de ser madre, la despiden del trabajo y todo su mundo, matrimonio incluido, se viene abajo. ¿Debería seguir el ejemplo de su mejor amiga, mandarlo todo a la porra y ligarse a un cachas africano? ¿O resignarse a una vida rodeada de pañales, en paro y sin vida sexual?